I have to give the girls credit, we've been on the road a lot and have had to rise above adversity with missed calls, bad bounces, and things that didn't go our way, and they've gotten used to it and fought through it.

This was crucial to get this win. We let one slip away when we were in Minot and we need this win to take the momentum into our next two West Region games.

We always seem to have a bad quarter and the third one was it. I was just thinking if we could weather the storm and keep a lead or at least be tied going into the fourth, we had a chance.

Fortunately I wasn't driving when I saw it because I would have driven off the road. I was so happy.

We journeyed through ancient China by traveling along the Silk Road on a CD simulation. The girls learned how the 7,000-mile route opened trade between the Far East and the West and connected ancient China to the Roman Empire.

More and more girls are standing at the road side, many of them not even thirteen of age.